2007-02-16 11:47:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
people are cruel from the start. they have to be taught to not be cruel.
2007-02-16 15:06:13 · answer #1 · answered by lightperson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because adults are teaching this to their children. What is happening is the actions of kids today have evolved into a very disturbing pathological trend. Certainly rage and conflict have always apart of growing up. But now there emerges such hostility, emanating from deep unresolved psychological psychosis, that children can be so bold as to wantonly obtain a fire arm and go into a school or a crowded mall and randomly slaughter innocent people.
Another aspect is, as children, this is where adults got their start and some never out grew the desire to be cruel. Now that they have become adults they are unhampered by the limitations (if there still are any) of being a child. They have graduated from being children and are now let loose on the world where their methods of meanness are even more profound and the means of practicing such cruelty are ever more so abundant. Welcome to the brave new world.
2007-02-16 20:49:35 · answer #2 · answered by quantumview 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think cruel adults usually started out as cruel children whose cruel behavior was tolerated or minimized. When we talk about how cruel children can be we are usually referring to the cruelty they inflict on other children. Too often the impact of that behavior on it's target is minimized and chalked up to children just being children.
2007-02-16 20:06:31 · answer #3 · answered by kvcar2 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The crueluest and crudest adults started of that
way in childhood. Do you recall the majority of
the cruel children growing up to be decent adults?
2007-02-16 19:56:24 · answer #4 · answered by saa932003 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While it's true that adults can definitely be cruel, and I've had many personal experiences with that, adults, usually, or sometimes have learned proper manners and societal expectations, wjhile children lack inhibition and can say anything they think.
2007-02-16 19:56:21 · answer #5 · answered by pickynickie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the adults of today were children of yesteryear
2007-02-16 21:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by caciansf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People can be hypocrites. They don't want to realize the faults they have in themselves, so they resort to pointing out the faults of others.
2007-02-16 19:59:02 · answer #7 · answered by ferniee2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they haven't learned to be as secretive about it as adults can be.
2007-02-16 20:02:27 · answer #8 · answered by V 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
where do you think the kids get it from?
2007-02-16 20:01:12 · answer #9 · answered by Gwennan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋